Sometimes we have some patents that can also be published as research articles in well-known journals. Is it therefore possible to use your own patented material and publish it as a research article?
Muhammad Jawad Sajid
Patents publications are not geared for publishing as articles. Patent documents aim to delimit what you are claiming is your invention. In doing so you have to make the narrative as far reaching as possible so that they cover as much in a claim. Otherwise the patent coverage would be useless. This contrast with research publications whose focus is narrow and may only touch one aspect of an invention.
In addition, patent documents, for example, do not have an experimental setup and experiment results section where the inventive concept is put to the test and can be validated by other researchers. However, you can do the experimental setup and test your device and publish the findings.
You should consider publishing your patent as an article only after it has issued. Never publish a patent application as it could be viewed as prior art. Also, depending on your patent subject matter, you may have "know-how" that is not included in your patent that you should keep confidential. Any information that might help a competitor reverse engineer your product could adversely affect your patent's commercial value. When publishing an article about your patent after it issues, focus on the benefits, not on the details of how you made it.
"Prior art" is material available to the public before the date you filed the application. Once your application is filed, you are free to publish.
A patent application will usually require quite a bit of revising before it's suitable for publication in a journal, where the emphasis is on the science, and not on the commercial possibilities.
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